Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] lose all [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Sally-Anne had one pain , one memory of which she dared not even think for fear that she would lose all command of herself , one memory which she always pushed away when it tried to attack her .
2 If she has a male boss who has tantrums that would be more appropriate in a three-year-old , a boss who shouts at and bullies her , in the institutional world of male values , she will lose all respect if she cries .
3 You will lose all text formatting , but you can always do this again .
4 Do [ if you do ] you will lose all power .
5 ‘ If we did not , we would lose all continuity with our past , would only be able to live from moment to moment like butterflies alighting and flitting away , and no relationship or experience could have any permanent value for us .
6 In every case the person 's repertoire is gradually restricted , their confidence is eaten away , and they will lose all hope of ever being able to do these things again , and eventually stop trying altogether .
7 The feeling in Portugal is that if Quieroz 's side should lose that game they will lose all interest in Group I , though a draw would be even more beneficial to Scotland .
8 Common Law would treat a provision in a contract as to time as being ‘ of the essence of the contract ’ , meaning that if a certain act was not done by one party within a certain stipulated time , he should lose all rights under the contract ; Equity treated such a provision in general as not being of the essence of the contract , but as giving a right only to damages .
9 He would lose all credibility with the Coptic community .
10 She could see the rage building up in her father and knew that when it burst he would lose all ability to reason .
11 He would have forfeited the fragile trust Surere had put in him , and if he turned him over to Kenamun , he would lose all trace of the delicate thread that seemed , somehow , to link Surere with the girls ' deaths .
12 I suspect that is now the view of the Liberal Democrats , so if Labour were to hang on trying to breathe life into the corpse while the Democrats tiptoed from the funeral parlour , then it would lose all legitimacy as a multi-party device .
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